I had a similar fracture. They fixed it without surgery and now my wrist has a few degrees extra tilt. My wrist works normally despite the odd angle (the first years it made a clicking noise while rotating). If you had surgery the angle shoot be fine and all you need to do is exercise, exercise and exercise. Toine
On 7/23/07, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My plaster cast was taken off today, only 3.5 weeks after breaking my > wrist. Here's a picture of my Frankenstein-like scar: > http://www.web-options.com/Scar.jpg > > The photo also shows clearly how much my muscles have wasted in such a > short time - that's a big surprise. Otherwise it's doing very well, > and I have started on some simple physio exercises to try and get the > movement back in my wrist. > > If anybody else here has had a similar injury I'd be interested to > learn how much movement you managed to recover, and in what period of > time. When I broke the wrist the surgeon told me not to expect to > recover full movement, and suggested I might not be able to ride a > bicycle again. That I find hard to believe, even if I do have > restricted movement, hence my request for information. > > Good news is, the insurance have paid out from my lost watch, so a > brand new Tag Heuer Aquaracer is swimming in my general direction at > the moment. Now I just need the swelling to go down so I can wear it. > > -- > Regards, > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Toine http://leende.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
